Wednesday, January 11, 2017

In a recent column, George Will notes (among other things in its
favor) the following good reason
for keeping the Electoral College:

Those who demand
direct popular election of the president should be advised that this
is what we have -- in 51 jurisdictions (the states and the District of
Columbia). And the electoral vote system quarantines electoral
disputes. Imagine the 1960 election under direct popular election:
John Kennedy's popular vote margin over Richard Nixon was just
118,574. If all 68,838,219 popular votes had been poured into a single
national bucket, there would have been powerful incentives to
challenge the results in many of the nation's 170,000 precincts. [bold
added]